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However, these three nephews divided the land with him. Albert II retained Saxe-Wittenberg, and became the head of the Elder Saxon Line; Albert III, Eric I and John II ruled together in Saxe-Lauenburg, becoming the founders of the Younger Saxon Line. 1296–1298. Saxe-Wittenberg. John I.
Saxons. The Saxons [1] were a group of Germanic [2] peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany. [3] In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and in a similar sense to the ...
Also known as Francia, the Kingdom of the Franks and the Carolingian Empire: Partitioned from Francia in the Treaty of Verdun along with Middle Francia and East Francia (later the Kingdom of Germany; see below) Kingdom of France – 1789: First French Empire – 1812: Kingdom of France – 1815: Kingdom of France – 1839: French Third Republic ...
The Légion de Conflans later the Régiment de Saxe Hussards (English: Conflans Legion and English: Saxe Hussar Regiment) was a German- French legion formed during the War of the Austrian Succession. The legion would later serve in the Seven Years' War, but like the other French legions, legion was split and became a hussar regiment.
Meissen (in German orthography: Meißen, IPA: [ˈmaɪsn̩] ), is a town of approximately 30,000 about 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche.
The Province of Saxony (German: Provinz Sachsen ), also known as Prussian Saxony ( Preußisches Sachsen ), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Its capital was Magdeburg . It was formed by the merger of various territories ceded or returned to Prussia in 1815 by the Congress of ...